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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

1308 points rickybule | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?
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doix ◴[28 Aug 25 17:14 UTC] No.45054598[source]▶
I'm currently traveling in Uzbekistan and am surprised that wireguard as a protocol is just blocked. I use wireguard with my own server, because usually governments just block well known VPN providers and a small individual server is fine.

It's the first time I've encountered where the entire protocol is just blocked. Worth checking what is blocked and how before deciding which VPN provider to use.

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varenc ◴[29 Aug 25 07:46 UTC] No.45061323[source]▶
Is it the protocol that's blocked as a result of DPI, or just the default 51820 UDP port that's blocked? If the latter, just changing your Wireguard server's port might work.
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doix ◴[29 Aug 25 07:48 UTC] No.45061339[source]▶
It's DPI, I run on a non standard port.
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1. varenc ◴[29 Aug 25 08:49 UTC] No.45061741{3}[source]▶
Damnnn, wonder what hardware you need to run DPI on a nation's internet.
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2. doix ◴[29 Aug 25 10:03 UTC] No.45062204[source]▶
I think the hardware doesn't keep up. Uzbekistan has the worst internet compared to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan whilst the infrastructure in general is much better (in my fairly uneducated opinion). I expected to have the best internet until I got around to trying to use it.